Ninety first in ninety third. The two years anniversary of the events of August 1991 in the press during the 1993 Constitutional crisis: based on materials from Pravda, Izvestia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Abstract

This article is devoted to the featuring the anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt on the pages of newspapers in 1993. The events of August 1991 did not disappear from the current field and were used both for the propaganda and for comprehending the past and forecasts for the future. The fact that a few months before the memorable date the trial of those arrested in the SCSE case began served to refresh the events in the public perception, and just a couple of weeks before that, an abridged version of the indictment was published in public sources.